i18n fonts

2007-12-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs are layed out according to the state contained in the unicode character sequence.

Re: i18n fonts

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher Fynn
Hi Russell you wrote: If multiple fonts exist for a language, then for all these font files to work with an editor, then all these glyphs must be indexed the same. For complex scripts rarely will glyphs for the combinations you need to display be indexed the same from font to font - you

Re: i18n fonts

2007-12-02 Thread Rich Felker
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs are layed out